Improvement in earth-closets



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

AMos `MALLCEY7 on MYsTIC BRIDGE, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN EARTH-CLOSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,694., dat-edSeptember 24, 1872.

` Tocll 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Anios MALLORY, of Mystic Bridge, town of Stonington,county of New London, State of Connecticut, have invented certainImprovements in Earth-Closets, of which the following is aspecification:

My invention relates tothe mode of depositingthe earth in the receptacleof the earthcloset by means of a slide with an inclined opening, whichinclined opening receives the earth from the reservoir and deposits itin the receptacle, said slide being moved to and fro, receiving anddepositing the earth` by means of a pin in the drawer, which acts uponthe slide through flanges attached to the slide.

`The accompanying drawing represents an earth-closet (closed) embodyingmy improvement or invention. c

A is the reservoir containing the earth; F, the slide. B is the inclinedopening in slide. G is the stationary division. H is the opening throughwhich the earth is deposited. I is the seat. E is the receptacle. D isthe drawer. J is the pin in drawer D, which moves F by means of thedangesK K attached to the slide. O is the opening in the back for'air toescape When closing the drawer. When the closet is `the inclined openingB being over the opening H. When the closet is used the drawer D is'pulled forward; the pin J, by the motion of the drawer, acts upon theiianges K K, moving the slide F forward -so that the inclined opening Bcomes under the reservoir and is thus filled with earth. By the closingof the drawerD the pin J again acts upon the flan ges K K, pushing theslide F backward so that the inclined opening B comes over the openingH, thus depositing the earth in the receptacle. Second, by means of theopening 0 in back I am enabled to close and draw outthe drawer D withoutresistance of the atmosphere."

I make no claim for the drawer; but

I claim as my invention- The slide F, when constructed with the inclinedopening B and anges K K, and arranged to operate in combination withtheres- .eI-voir A, stationary division G, and drawer' D,

as shown and described.

` AMOS MALLORY.

Witnesses:

J. A. RATIIBCNE, FRANK HANCOCK.

